An 81-year-old man killed his 74-year-old wife on Wednesday night, bringing a 52-year-old marriage to a sordid end. He assaulted her with a wooden stick at their house in Kasarvadavli, Thane. The elderly man later surrendered to the police.

The accused, Umakant Sule approached the Kasarvadavli police last morning to admit that he had killed his wife, Pushpa Sule. “We were shocked when Umakant narrated his story about having killed his wife, as she had told him she would no longer take care of him. We sent a team to check his claim, and found his wife lying in a pool of blood in the bedroom,” said M V Dharmadhikari, senior police inspector.